Precise at every density
16 px for the command bar, 14 for panels, 12 for dense lists. Each size is redrawn, not scaled, so it stays crisp wherever it lands.
Mach9 Iconography
One icon system for Digital Surveyor 2, so surveyors can tell a CAD tool from a view control at a glance.
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OPACITY TONES
PROBLEM
Icons grew tool by tool from mixed sources, so a draw tool, a view toggle and a status flag could look alike.
HOW MIGHT WE
How might we give 200 tools one visual language, so surveyors know what an icon does before they hover it?
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Action first
Full weight marks what the tool changes. Supporting geometry steps back to 70%, context to 40%, so the action reads first.
Fluent in CAD
Square vertices, handles and snaps borrow the visual language surveyors already read every day.
ICONS
IN APP
The icons at work in the command bar, view controls and layer panel.
TAKEAWAYS
- 01Sorting 200 icons by what they do exposed the duplicates and gaps first.
- 02In a viewport full of point cloud color, opacity carries meaning that color can’t.
- 03Redrawing each size by hand costs more up front and saves every 12 px icon from blur.